You're making the assumption that 32 ASCII characters can produce every possible binary combination in 256 bits. I don't know how AES handles password phrases longer than 32 bytes but the key can be stronger I'd imagine with more random data as the key. I'm simply presuming.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Barnet Wagman <b...@norbl.com> wrote: > This a rather naive question, but I haven't found and answer to it. When > doing symmetric encryption with AES256, is there any reason to have a > passphrase that exceeds 32 characters (since that's the length of the AES > key)? > > thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users >
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